ALBANY, N.Y. — Luis Padilla remembers the terror he felt as a 16-year-old arrested on a robbery charge and locked up with adults in New York City’s notorious Rikers Island jail. At one point, he pretended to be suicidal so he could be placed in the relative safety of a locked observation cell. “Even now [...]
KIRYAS JOEL, N.Y. — A quickly crowding Hasidic Jewish village that is working to expand its boundaries faces opposition from neighbors who fear more urban-style development by the insular community could overrun their slice of suburbia. “It’s going to become like New York City, like the Bronx or Brooklyn,” said Michael Queenan, mayor of the [...]
LONDON — In a warehouse at London’s sprawling Heathrow Airport, a border officer pulls open a cardboard box he suspects contains contraband goods. Bingo — his instincts are rewarded. The box is packed with beige and black sneakers that to the untrained eye look identical to the limited edition Adidas Yeezy Boost, designed by rap [...]
The United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit ruled this week that the city of Lebanon could not recoup electric utility undercharges that were the result of its own clerical error. The ruling from the federal court of appeals reversed that of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, which [...]
A pair of Cleveland-area lawmakers have weighed in on the debate over single-person freight train crews. Democrat Sens. Kenny Yuko of Richmond Heights and Michael Skindell of Lakewood have sided with federal regulators and labor unions proposing Senate Bill 74 this week. The measure simply requires the crews of freight trains operating in the Buckeye [...]
WASHINGTON — When Republicans say they want to lower taxes and get rid of loopholes to make up the lost revenue, they’re talking about eliminating some very popular tax breaks enjoyed by millions of people. That’s why making big changes to tax laws is so hard — and why it hasn’t been done for 30 [...]
The United States Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit recently reversed a lower court’s ruling that denied summary judgment to the City of Bedford Heights on federal constitutional claims stemming from the death of a jail detainee. After Omar Arrington-Bey died of a heart attack in a Bedford Heights jail cell in 2013, his [...]
An advisory council established as a check to rulemaking by the state auditor and attorney general as it pertains to the contracts for goods, services, or construction with a state agency or political subdivision has outlived its relevance, according to some Ohio lawmakers As a consequence, Rep. Bob Cupp, R-Lima, has proposed a bill to [...]
COLUMBUS — A state certification process will require that all Ohio police departments for the first time collect data on the race and gender of people they pull over in traffic stops or take aside for questioning, in an effort to reduce potential police bias against suspects. Many large departments already collect such data including [...]